AMD Announces IBM and Oracle Support...

SUNNYVALE, CALIF.-May 25, 2004-AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced additional enterprise software support from IBM and Oracle with availability of AMD64 product optimizations. The migration of these core business applications to the AMD64 platform will help ensure enterprise customers have access to x86-based 64-bit software optimized for improving e-business and enterprise resource planning (ERP).

The new solutions represent offerings from the industry's leading database and ERP companies. IBM announced an upcoming developer's release Technology Preview of DB2 Universal Database for Windows(r) Server 2003 for Extended 64-Bit Systems. Oracle is offering immediate availability of an AMD64-optimized Oracle Database for Linux as well as a developer's release of Oracle Database 10g for Windows.